I'm probably not going to have any scrubs at all.   That's the way I've been playing most regular theme leagues, so I'm averse to having anyone on my team who's a zilch.   For a while, my wild card player had a chance to be really expensive, but that might not happen anymore.

How are you guys displaying your rosters so nicely in the posts? A lot of typing or there a slick formatting trick involved in copy/paste?

I'm stoked about my team. $16 million for Bonds forced me to make two big sacrifices in the line-up (a cheap Rickey season and a so-so catcher) and the pitching staff is razor thin at 1450 innings (not counting scrub). I'll have about $4,000 left when my roster is complete.

My biggest misses so far:

Steve Ontiveros '94: I gambled on trying to net the classic 150IP tandem of Mark Eichhorn and Ontiveros and came up one guy short.
Joe Mauer '06,'09: Two awesome catcher seasons that don't need backups.
Bonds '97: Great leadoff guy for under $7 million. I'll be settling for a worse 1-hole option.
Mike Jackson '98: A quality sub $2.5 mil reliever with 60+ ip. Settled for Steve Reed, whose equally good but only 55 IP.

Everything else has gone according to plan.

I just type mine in manually, teal_leo

Me too. Manually.

Posted by poetfred on 10/4/2010 3:26:00 PM (view original):
Going to give this a try for posting & tracking my teams' draft results:

#1 Shea - SP -Cone (88) / 2B- Sax (89) / BDH - Gwynn (90) / RP - Righetti (91) / OF - Dawson (92) / OF - Conine (93) / OF - Sosa (94) / SP -D. Wells (95) / BIF - Matt Williams (96) / SP - Neagle (97) / RP - B. Wagner (98) / BOF - Alex Ochoa (99) / c - S. Alomar (00) / RP - J. Mesa (01) / 3B - Rolen (02) / ss - Jeter (03) / RP -Isringhausen (04) / SP - Buehrle (05) / BIF - M. Young (06) / BIF - Placido (07)

#2 Comerica -SP - Verlander (07) / B2B Uggla (08) / RP - Papelbon (09) / RP - Franco (86) / C - Scioscia (87) / 1B - McGwire (88) / BOF - Chili Davis (89) / DH - C. Fielder (90) / BIF - Lou Whitaker (91) / OF - Dykstra (92) / RP - Aguilera (93) / 2B - Bret Boone (1994) / c - S. Alomar (95) / BIF - Hansen (96) / SP - Juden (97) / ss - Renteria (98) / Dh - S. Sosa (99) / B?IF - J. Giambi (00) / RP - Isringhausen (01) / SP - Zito (02)

Hey Poet,

You might need to select a new pick for 2007 for your Team #1 as I think BigSteve12 has Placido Polanco for that year already (unless there is some guy with a last name Placido that isn't showing up in WIS ).

Well, I don't have much hope, unless I get lucky with alignment or something. My draft position proved to be a poor choice for pitching in the early rounds, so I have a strong offensive team with mediocre pitching (by $120m standards). My pitching staff is going to be worth only $48m, and the problem is that prime pitching was more scarce than prime hitting in this draft. So, I'll be lucky to beat .500...

C - 2007 Jorge Posada (.338/.426/.543)
1B - 2005 Todd Helton  (.320/.445/.534)
2B - 1991 Willie Randolph (.327/.424/.374)
SS - 2009 Derek Jeter (.334/.406/.465)
3B - 1986 George Brett (.290/.401/.481)
OF - 1987 Kal Daniels (.334/.429/.617)
OF - 1989 Lonnie Smith (.315/.415/.533)
OF - 1988 Mike Greenwell (.325/.416.531)
DH - 1992 John Kruk (.323/.423/.458)

Bench

SP - 1999 Pedro Martinez (214 IP, .92 WHIP)
SP - 2000 Kevin Brown (230 IP, .99 WHIP)
SP - 2002 Odalis Perez (223 IP, .99 WHIP)
SP - 2004 Ben Sheets (239 IP, .98 WHIP)
SP - 2008 CC Sabathia (131 IP, 1.00 WHIP)
RP - 2001 Mariano Rivera (81 IP, .90 WHIP)
RP - 2003 John Smoltz (65 IP, .87 WHIP)
RP - 2006 Cla Meredith (51 IP, .71 WHIP)
RP - 1994 Mike Jackson (60 IP, .80 WHIP)
RP - 1990 Randy Tomlin (78 IP, .94 WHIP)
RP
RP

Current Salary:  $102 mil
Hitting: $50.84 mil
Pitching - $51.68 mil

Posted by doubletruck on 10/4/2010 7:43:00 PM (view original):
Well, I don't have much hope, unless I get lucky with alignment or something. My draft position proved to be a poor choice for pitching in the early rounds, so I have a strong offensive team with mediocre pitching (by $120m standards). My pitching staff is going to be worth only $48m, and the problem is that prime pitching was more scarce than prime hitting in this draft. So, I'll be lucky to beat .500...

I only spent $48mil on pitching and I'm very confident in my staff, especially with my offense

are we missing an update????????

Posted by grayfoxx on 10/4/2010 9:48:00 PM (view original):
are we missing an update????????

No, 1 more hour 'til midnight...

didnt we have a 6pm deadline today?

Nope.  The schedule has been all over the place the last few days

***  If anyone is in need of a good quality starter  ***
I have 5 right now & would be willing to make a temtative trade for an upcoming player.

2005 Pedro Martinez

R

15-8-0

217

2.82

.204

0.95

8.63

1.95

208-47

$7,561,923

Someone missed the part about no trading before the league starts

Trades can be *setup* now and then be completed after the season starts.